Justice 'to Come'? Decolonial Deconstruction, from Postmodern Policymaking to the Black Horizon

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ID2236722
AutoresFarai Chipato (0000-0001-9122-9764, University of Glasgow), David Chandler (0000-0002-2766-7169, University of Westminster)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número4
Fecha de publicación2024-09-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olae041
OpenAlexW4403478324
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas63

This article explores the importance of what we call 'decolonial deconstruction' for contemporary global politics and policy discourses and develops a critique of this approach. 'Decolonial deconstruction' seeks to keep open policy processes, deconstructing liberal policy goals of peace, democracy, or justice as always 'to come'. It emerged through a nexus of postmodern and decolonial framings, well represented in the critical Black studies tradition, where theorists have focused upon identity construction, rejecting static conceptions. These approaches have increasingly been taken up in international policymaking approaches and International relations theory, particularly in the field of peacebuilding and the broad policy approach of resilience. After highlighting the ways that processual understandings of deconstruction have transformed these policy areas, we suggest an alternative deconstructive approach. In doing so, we draw upon the critical Black studies tradition but emphasize the need to critique underlying ontological assumptions about the world. We heuristically set out this approach as the 'Black Horizon

Aesthetics · Deconstruction (building) · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Horizon · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture